Meaning
A media license states permissions and conditions governing particular uses of a work.
A practical example
A license record should identify the specific file and applicable version of the terms, not only the website that hosts it.
What to check
A badge detached from its source is weak evidence. Read the actual terms and seek qualified advice for uncertain uses rather than relying on a formatter.
For a related planning or text task, open the source attribution builder. The tool has its own limits; its result is not a measurement or approval of every concept described here.
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Continue: Sources and attribution
- Source attribution builder
- What to record from a Wikimedia Commons file page before editing
- Review individual NASA media credits instead of assuming every file is identical
- Primary source
- Secondary source
- Provenance
- Format supplied source records into a credit draft
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